| 25-5951 |
Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts |
1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving
actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator … |
| 24-7243 |
Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances marital-privilege prejudicial-evidence probative-value witness-testimony |
Whether the marital privilege warrants limiting the wife's testimony under extraordinary circumstances when failure to do so will allow highly prejudi… |
| 23-1186 |
Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process-right-to-a-fair-trial-was-violated |
| 23-6983 |
Christopher James Michelotti v. Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment |
Were Christopher Mh cheloth's 5th amendment constitutional rights violated? |
| 23-6271 |
Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting Tyrone Maddox's 20-year-old prior conviction for delivery of narcotics on the issue of intent, where the pr… |
| 23-5806 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand |
| 21-7048 |
Christopher Gerken v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-procedure due-process emotional-display fair-trial free-press motion-in-limine prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Was Christopher Gecen's constitutional right to a fair trial violated when a pre-read newspaper article containing information barred from trial had a… |
| 21-6065 |
Michael Belcher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence |
Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom… |
| 21-5668 |
Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal |
Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a… |
| 21-5489 |
Jerris M. Blanks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion |
Whether a defendant can refile a pretrial motion after withdrawing it |
| 20-367 |
Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar… |
| 19-8800 |
Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when the State introduces irrelevant evidence at the guilt phase alleging the defendant poses… |
| 19-8425 |
Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in limiting the scope of cross-examination of a jailhouse informant, denying the defendant's constitutional right to … |
| 19-7960 |
Reginald Edward Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment prejudicial-evidence prison-garb shackles |
Is displaying a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb prejudicial? |
| 19-7345 |
Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu… |
| 19-620 |
Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act |
Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa… |
| 19-6456 |
Geoffrey Baggett v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession-suppression custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-interrogation police-tactics prejudicial-error prejudicial-evidence right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether petitioner's confession should have been excluded from evidence because petitioner was the victim of misleading tactics leading up to being ad… |
| 19-5065 |
Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence |
Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based … |
| 18-9579 |
James D. Tench v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment |
Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process? |
| 18-1491 |
Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i… |
| 18-8728 |
Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility |
Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi… |
| 18-7525 |
Delexsia Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 |
Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def… |
| 18-574 |
Joseph Rachal v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence |
Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de… |
| 18-6466 |
Wilson C. Ortega v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-enhancement criminal-street-gang criminal-threats false-imprisonment gang-evidence gang-related ineffective-assistance-of-counsel predicate-offenses prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the admission of irrelevant and inflammatory gang evidence prejudiced the petitioner |
| 18-6265 |
Samuel Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 |
Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un… |
| 18-5726 |
Ruben Cazares v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure |
Whether lower courts correctly evaluate the harmfulness of Bruton error without accounting for the devastating 'special prejudice' to the accused that… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information |
| 18-5558 |
Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the state deprived petitioner of his guaranteed right to a fair trial |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring … |